Yibo Wang

Yibo Wang 王一博

Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science

Yibo Wang is a Ph.D. student in the FSSL Lab of Computer Science at Syracuse University advised by Dr. Yuzhe Tang. He received his B. E. from Huazhong University of Science and Technology and his M.S. in Computer Engineering from Syracuse University. His research focuses on the security and cost-effectiveness of blockchain.

Publications

Towards Understanding Crypto-Asset Risks on Ethereum Caused by Key Leakage on the Internet Yuxuan Zhou, Jiaqi Chen, Yibo Wang, Yuzhe Tang and G. Gu, International World Wide Web Conference, 2024, short paper

Understanding the Security Risks of Decentralized Exchanges by Uncovering Unfair Trades in the Wild Jiaqi Chen, Yibo Wang, Yuxuan Zhou, Wanning Ding, Yuzhe Tang, XiaoFeng Wang, Kai Li, 8th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2023

Ethical Challenges in Blockchain Measurement Research Yuzhe Tang, Kai Li, Yibo Wang, Jiaqi Chen, EthiCS 2023, Co-located with NDSS 2023

Towards Saving Blockchain Fees via Secure and Cost-Effective Batching of Smart-Contract Invocations Yibo Wang, Kai Li, Yuzhe Tang, Jiaqi Chen, Qi Zhang, Xiapu Luo, Ting Chen, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering 2023

Enabling Cost-Effective Blockchain Applications via Workload-Adaptive Transaction Execution Yibo Wang, Yuzhe Tang, Poster ACM CCS 2022

DETER: Denial of Ethereum Txpool sERvices Kai Li, Yibo Wang, Yuzhe Tang, ACM CCS 2021

iBatch: Saving Ethereum Fees via Secure and Cost-Effective Batching of Smart-Contract Invocations Yibo Wang, Qi Zhang, Kai Li, Yuzhe Tang, Jiaqi Chen, Xiapu Luo, Ting Chen, ESEC/FSE 2021

TopoShot: Uncovering Ethereum’s Network Topology Leveraging Replacement Transactions Kai Li, Yuzhe Tang, Jiaqi Chen, Yibo Wang, Xianghong Liu, ACM IMC 2021

Scalable Log Auditing on Private Blockchains via Lightweight Log-Fork
Prevention Yuzhe Tang, Kai Li, Yibo Wang, Sencer Burak Somuncuoglu, SERIAL@Middleware 2020

Teaching

Guest Lecture

Delivered a lecture on “Introduction to Blockchain and Web 3.0” for FIN 426 – Multi-National Financial Management at SUNY-Oswego on April 18, 2024. This lecture was part of the curriculum taught by Dr. Hong Wan.

Research Project

Discovering DoS attack on Ethereum transaction pool

Discover the vulnerability of transaction pool in Ethereum clients by reading source code, testing cases and fuzzing.
Report 4 unique attacks that can deny the service of transaction pool with 0 or low cost.
Our team receives Bug bounty from Ethereum Foundation $12,000 (2021), $2,000 (2022), $4,000 (2023) and OpenEthereum/Parity $8,000 (2021)

Improving the resilience of the transaction pool against DoS attacks on Go-Ethereum client

Design defense against transaction pool DoS attacks by tightening the TxPool validation rules. Ensure no vulnerability in our design of defense.
Co-develop the patch code of the defense against transaction pool DoS attack and the code is merged in Geth client V1.11.4.
Work as a contributor of Go-Ethereum (Geth) V1.11.4, https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/releases/tag/v1.11.4